So you have an idea for the next hot mobile app and are preparing to quit your job to launch the new business. Here’s the most important reason you should reconsider doing so.
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It’s all too often that entrepreneurs make this mistake and destroy their business.
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This week I read about someone who ‘created a startup over Christmas’. Here’s why that’s completely unreasonable.
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“He who fails to plan, plans to fail” – Proverb I have gone throughout much of my life not planning anything. In fact I’m so bad at planning that I figured there had to be an easier way and we came up with Holler. When we started Holler we had three things: a vision, an [...]
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When speaking on a panel at the recent DC Week event, I made a statement that resonated with some people in the audience: design is no longer an option. If you think back to the 90s, web design was essentially a foreign concept. Developers who could piece together some janky table-layout html were the ones [...]
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I’ve been asked by a number of people about naming startups since launching Holler.com, a name which to say the least, did not come cheaply. People have asked me everything from how to name a startup, to how much you should spend, to how important the name is. Ultimately, we each have our own theories [...]
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In today’s world where there are data points that you can use to argue just about anything, how does one truly measure their success? Part of the answer comes in a post from MG Siegler, who wrote today about winning at tech blogging. As someone who wrote all day about technology for a few years, [...]
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Yesterday evening I got into a conversation with two friends about the growing number of incubators that are following in Y-Combinator’s shadow. Are they beneficial to the entrepreneurial ecosystem? Can the startup ecosystem really benefit from all of these companies that can be written off as features? Aside from the poor economics behind startups, and [...]
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When you start an ambitious project you’re excited because of the journey that you’re embarking on. Months in, you’ll probably be cursing at yourself for taking on a project that’s so ambitious. At those moments where you’re cursing yourself or feeling like you may have taken on something that’s too challenging, it’s helpful to have [...]
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Success is not about launching your product as soon as possible. Here’s an approach that I’ve seen work time and again.
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